Â鶹ÊÓƵ is driving rapid AI adoption and advancements across the Commonwealth
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As the largest and most diverse university in Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., Â鶹ÊÓƵ is leading the future of inclusive artificial intelligence (AI) and developing responsible models for AI research, education, workforce development, and community engagement within a modern university.
As AI reshapes industries, George Â鶹ÊÓƵ combines fearless ideas that harness the technology’s boundless potential to address the world’s grand challenges, while creating guardrails based on informed, transdisciplinary research around ethical governance, regulatory oversight, and social impact.
Led by the university’s inaugural vice president and chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) Amarda Shehu with an AI Visioning Task Force, George Â鶹ÊÓƵ is reimagining operational excellence in every facet of the university.
George Â鶹ÊÓƵ is building a nexus of collaboration and resources on campus, throughout the region with our vast partnerships, and across the state, called AI2Nexus.
As a model for universities, AI2Nexus is based on four key principles: Integrating AI to transform education, research, and operations; Inspiring with AI to advance higher education and learning for the future workforce; Innovating with AI to lead in responsible AI-enabled discovery and advancements across disciplines; and Impacting with AI to drive partnerships and community engagement for societal adoption and change.
AI infrastructures are a national security and human safety issue, Â鶹ÊÓƵ professor says
Through his Minerva Project, J.P. Singh, , wants to understand “how preferences or interests from society, business, or other government actors shape policy in terms of what countries are doing with their national AI infrastructures.â€
Integrate AI: Advancing Operations with NebulaONE
George Â鶹ÊÓƵ is reimagining operational excellence, equipping every student, faculty member, and staff with access to hundreds of cutting-edge Gen AI models through the revolutionary NebulaONE platform rolling out in early spring.
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Inspire AI: Designing Curriculum for the Future Workforce
George Â鶹ÊÓƵ is equipping students with AI skills as a leader in developing AI-ready talent ready to compete and new ideas for critical sectors like cybersecurity, public health, and government.  In the classroom, the university is developing courses and curriculums to better prepare our students for a rapidly changing world.Ìý
In Spring of 2025, the university launched a cross-disciplinary graduate course, AI: Ethics, Policy, and Society. In Fall 2025, the university is debuting a new undergraduate course open to all students, AI4All: Understanding and Building Artificial Intelligence. A master's in , a (fall 2025), an for undergraduates of all majors, and aÌý are more examples of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s mission to innovate AI education. New academies are also in development.Ìý
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READ: George Â鶹ÊÓƵ launches Virginia’s first public master’s degree in AIÌý
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Research using AI to track Amazon rainforest species produces landmark resultsÌý
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George Â鶹ÊÓƵ students receive real-world, hands-on experience with AI. An example is the team of undergraduate researchers that worked under researcher David Luther to analyze acoustic recordings from the tropics to identify animals. Hear more about Luther'sÌýtracking research.
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Fuse at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Square fosters collaboration and innovation by creating spaces for students and researchers to work side-by-side with industry leaders. .
Innovate with AI: Building a Responsible Ecosystem
George Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s ecosystem of AI teaching, cutting-edge research, and incubators for entrepreneurs foster interdisciplinary collaborations and substantiate a virtuous cycle between foundational and user-inspired AI research within ethical frameworks.
The university hosts workshops, conferences, and public forums to shape the discourse on AI ethics and governance while forging deep and meaningful partnerships with industry, government, and community organizations to co-develop impactful AI technologies for a richly diverse global society.
George Â鶹ÊÓƵ partners with tech leaders like Google and Amazon Web Services to offer certifications in data analytics, cybersecurity, and cloud computing, enhancing student expertise. 
LISTEN to Access to Excellence Podcast - EP 46: Missy Cummings: Artificial intelligence is artificial and not intelligent
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Impact AI: Driving Community Engagement and Adoption
George Â鶹ÊÓƵ is tackling the world’s most urgent challenges with a purpose and vision for societal change. The university’s is a partnership between academia, public-sector tech providers, and government. It is a trusted resource for advancing AI approaches, governance frameworks, and robust guardrails to guide the development and deployment of responsible AI in government. Leading experts and faculty also participate in statewide efforts.
George Â鶹ÊÓƵ collaborates with other universities across the country to bring together experts and students to advance research. Gentopia, with North Carolina State University, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, and Carnegie Mellon University, aims to push the boundaries of natural language processing. Gentopia lets researchers develop and share tool-augmented natural language models and discover new ways of using them for various tasks and domains.
Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has appointed Jamil N. Jaffer, the founder and executive director of the National Security Institute (NSI) at George Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Antonin Scalia Law School, to his new AI Task Force, which will work with legislators to regulate rapidly advancing AI technology. Learn about Jaffer's appointment to the AI Task Force.
LISTEN to Access to Excellence Podcast — EP 59: Jamil Jaffer: Cybersecurity and the global threats of tomorrow
News and Spotlights
Faculty leading in classroom experiences and research on campus
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Professor, College of Engineering and ComputingÌýÌý
Co-Director, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)Ìý
First American Bank Chair
One of the U.S. Navy's first female fighter pilots, Cumming is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow and recently served as the senior safety advisor to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Professor of Global Commerce and Policy, Schar School of Policy and GovernmentÌý Co-Director, Center for Advancing Human-Machine PartnershipÌý
Singh was awarded a three-year, $1.39 million grant from the Department of Defense’s esteemed to study the economic and cultural determinants for global AI infrastructures—and describe their implications for national and international security.
Jesse KirkpatrickÌý
Research Assistant Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Acting Director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
Co-Director, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)
Kirkpatrick is an International Security Fellow at New America and serves as a consultant for numerous organizations. His research focuses on the ethics of peace and security, emphasizing the ethical, social, and policy implications of emerging technologies.
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Professor, College of Public Health
Director, Machine Learning and Inference LaboratoryÌý
Wojtusiak’s expertise spans machine learning, health informatics, and the use of artificial intelligence in clinical decision support and knowledge discovery in medical data. He is interested in developing algorithms that derive usable models from complex health data to predict patient and population outcomes.
Assistant Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences and College of Engineering and Computing (joint appointment)Ìý
Pruss is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where she was also a 2023-24 fellow. Her research examines the social impacts of algorithmic decision-making systems in the U.S. criminal legal system.
Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government and College of Engineering and ComputingÌý
As an interdisciplinary scholar, Monroe-White’s work explores the systemic biases that affect the workforce and educational journeys of racially minoritized groups within the STEM fields. She is a fellow of the Institute in Critical Quantitative and Mixed Methodologies and served a three-year term as a special government employee data scientist on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Technical Advisory Committee.
AI at George Â鶹ÊÓƵ: In the Media
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Rep. Don Beyer wanted to understand AI, so he enrolled at George Â鶹ÊÓƵ ()
Analyzing Status of Global AI Infrastructure ()
George Â鶹ÊÓƵ opens $254M hub as Virginia aims to draw in more tech ()
Missy Cummings Takes AI to New Heights at Â鶹ÊÓƵ ()
Virginia Activates its Artificial Intelligence Task Force ()
George Â鶹ÊÓƵ opens $254M hub as Virginia aims to draw in more tech ()
